QOD

This blog purely for my own amusement. I like to start the day with a quote, be it amusing, inspiration, or simply something that caught my fancy.

On occasion, I might also include some commentary on the day's crossword puzzle that is published in the Los Angeles Times.

Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Tuesday, January 3, 2012

QOD: A true conservationist is a man who know that the world is not given by his fathers but borrowed from his children. ~ John James Audubon (Apr. 26, 1786 ~ Jan. 27, 1851), American ornithologist and naturalist

Monday, 2 January 2012

Monday, January 2, 2012

QOD: The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who do not have it. ~ George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 ~ Nov. 2, 1950), Irish playwright

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Sunday, January 1, 2012 / New Year's Day 2012

QOD: Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath.   Today, we are a pious and exemplary community.   Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever. ~ Mark Twain (né Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910), American novelist and humorist

Friday, 30 December 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

QOD: Those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it. ~ Albert Camus (Nov. 7, 1913 ~ Jan. 4, 1960)

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

QOD: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. ~ Robert Frost (né Robert Lee Frost; Mar. 26, 1874 ~ Jan. 29, 1963), American poet

Wednesday, 28 December 2011

Wednesday, December 28, 2011

QOD: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living.   The world owes you nothing.   It was here first. ~ Mark Twain (né Samuel Langhorne Clemens; Nov. 30, 1835 ~ Apr. 21, 1910), American author

Tuesday, 27 December 2011

Tuesday December 27, 2011

QOD: If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ~ Enrico Fermi (Sept. 29, 1901 ~ Nov. 28, 1954), Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics